The only silver-lining for Congress were Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, Food Minister KV Thomas and Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia who were ahead in their constituencies.

Raju seems to be the worst performer managing only 2,950 votes out of the above two lakh votes counted in the initial rounds. He was the third behind YSR's Sunil Chalamasetty and TDP's Thota Narsimhan.

Minister of State for Telecom Milind Deora too was trailing from South Mumbai while Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was marginally behind his BJP rival Jitendra Singh in Uddhampur.

Khurshid was a distant fifth in Farrukhabad constituency while Sibal was third in Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi. Pilot was trailing by more than 1.2 lakh votes in Ajmer behind BJP's Sanwarmal Jat.

Moily was behind BJP's Bache Gowda by 12,000 votes in Chikkballapur in Karnataka. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh and Fertiliser Minister Srikant Jena were also trailing.